The next segment will focus on how some U.S. residents have been unaffected by the recession.

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U.S. exports would be unaffected.

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Supporters of this legislation have implied that our nuclear arsenal is unaffected by the current absence of U.S. production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for weapons purposes.

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The Federal Reserve Chairman was right to note the U.S. can't forever remain an unaffected oasis in an increasingly troubled world.

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And let's ignore the fact that the U.S. government can literally print the money to service Washington's Treasury debt--after all, in the inflationary 1970s the real value of a U.S. Treasury bond plummeted and Washington's top-notch credit rating was unaffected.

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